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NFTS Students Win Animation BAFTA 4th Year in a Row!

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NFTS Students Win Animation BAFTA 4th Year in a Row!

Over 70 Grads Credited in Total

(Photo courtesy of BAFTA/ Guy Levy - A Love Story team including director and co-writer Anushka Naanayakkara picking up her BAFTA!)

We are proud to report that NFTS graduation film, A Love Story, directed and co-written by Anushka Naanayakkara, won the British Short Animation BAFTA at the EE British Academy Film Awards last night making it the fourth year in a row that NFTS students have picked up this accolade.

(A still from A Love Story)

This is the second consecutive year that two of NFTS students’ graduation films competed for the same prize with A Love Story up against The Alan Dimension directed & co-written by Jac Clinch (full credits for both films below). The ceremony took place last night at the Royal Albert Hall and was shown on BBC One.

Over 70 NFTS graduates were credited in this year’s BAFTAs including films that took the award on the night. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which is directed by NFTS alumnus David Yates, took the BAFTA for best Production Design; Kubo and the Two Strings whose composer is NFTS alumnus Dario Marianelli won the BAFTA for Best Animated Film and Best Special Visual Effects went to The Jungle Book which includes numerous credits for NFTS alumni including Visual Effects Production Manager Carlos Ciudad; Lead Compositor MPC Chris Gooch; Stereo Compositor MPC Graham Dorey; Roto/Prep Artist Andrew Scattergood; Digital Artist Helen Brownell; Digital Compositor Adam Arnot and Stereo Compositor MPC Victor Almela.

If you are inspired by this impressive list of credits across all aspects of the filmmaking business, we have open days coming up including an open day for Directing Animation on April 21st 2017. To see the full list of open days and to sign up, please visit https://nfts.co.uk/sign-me-up/open-days